What we love about working with Landmark buildings is the continual education on historical, impactful, architects.
In a sea of pedestrian, aluminum insert replacement windows at 230 West End Ave, we are just wrapping up the first apartment of our recent project featuring NYC LPC approved Norwood NorCoat Mahogany 8 over 8 Double Hung windows.
This replacement is returning some architectural spender to the building - originally designed by renowned Italian American Architect Rosario Candela - known for his numerous apartment building designs and collaborations with Warren and Wetmore, Cross and Cross, Walker and Gillette around New York City.
Candela is credited with defining the city's characteristic terraced setbacks and signature penthouses and most coveted addresses.
As architectural historian Cristopher Gray has written: "Rosario Candela has replaced Stanford White as the real estate brokers' name-drop of choice. Nowadays, to own a 10 to 20 room apartment in a Candela-designed building is to accede to architectural as well as social cynosure."
